Experience is the Best Teacher!
For designers the best thing after your formal training is to actually jump in and learn the ropes by experiencing how it is to work in the real world. Here is a great program that allows the students to travel and see the work of great designers up close. They also share their experiences, what t ...
On The Road | Your Trip Book
If you have friends like me who travel a lot. Wouldn't be cool to see what he or she is up to through the duration of their trip. Wouldn't it be nice to see them playing in the Snow in Europe or the US or having a great time surfing the beaches of Hawaii or just plain lying down and sipping margar ...
Photoshop | Unknown Image Sharpen Technique
There are times when you want to sharpen your images just a little bit in order to really bring out those details in for example the eyes, lips or hair to make the image extra crisp. Usually we use the "Sharpen" filter tool to achieve this. Sometimes over and over again in order to really get that p ...
Tame Your Phone with Google Voice
If you have not heard of the new service from Google you really need to check this out. You may remember Google acquired GrandCentral and are now rolling out the technology as their own but with lots of new features.
The basic idea of Google Voice is to have a single phone number that reaches yo ...
The Guy Who Hates Twitter and Everything Else..
I'm not sure if you guys have seen this video about a guy who hates Twitter and seems like everything else. With the dawn of new technology and the video generation, video has become a a big part of sharing one's views to the world. People now have the freedom to say what they want and to share wh ...
Create Your Resume’ Online Easy!
For kids who just got off school and preparing to enter the work force and for those who just want to maintain an online resume. Here is a cool tool. CeeVee! CeeVee was founded in June 2008 in Bucharest, Romania. At the start of a hot hot summer, we set out building an online tool that simplified ...
Photoshop | Smooth Skin and Focus Sharpening
Looking at those magazine photos always makes me wonder how they actually get ALL of those model's skin look so smooth and silky clean. Of course it's some magic applied to those photos before they are added as photos in a magazine. But how do they do it? Is it makeup, is it some filter they are usi ...
Get Inspired to Update Your Blog!
I see it every week, tweets from people that say things like, “Someone help me get excited about updating my blog.” Or “I guess I’ll be spending my night updating my blog.” I thought I would give you some techniques that I use to get inspired to update this blog.
Here at bitrebels, our blog is u ...
Sketch and Share with Friends
Sketching is fun. It's a great way to showcase your creativity or if not, a cool way to practice or even have your ideas come alive through images that you feel will bring out what you have in mind. Great that there are a lot of new tools one can use online to showcase such talent. Found this new ...
2 More Favorite Games on FaceBook
It's no secret that I love playing games on FaceBook. There are two new games that I am currently loving on the social networking site. And the first one is Cafe' World. The game let's you be the manager of your own restaurant like that of Restaurant City but if you ask me, its so much better. Yo ...
Gliding Through the Streets in a Nissan
Check out this new concept car from Nissan, the Land Glider EV. This street glider gives the driver a flying sensation with all four tires on the ground. Its a tiny compact car that rides like a plane and is able to fir into less than half a parking spot.
The wheels and fenders of the Nissan Glid ...
Bend A Spoon With Your Mind – Matrix Style
I’ve probably watched the Movie “The Matrix” dozens of times. It never ever gets old. One of my favorite scenes is the now very famous spoon bending scene.
About a year ago, my son Henry and I decided that we were going to bend spoons with our minds. It didn’t quite work the way we planned, bu ...
Bold Anti-Smoking ads
Gone are the days of the sexy Marlboro Man, who made smoking appealing, manly and part of the cowboy way. Tobacco advertising is one of the most highly regulated forms of marketing today. Canada is one of the leading anti-smoking advertisers in the world, compared to some of the middle eastern coun ...
Don’t Be a Copy Cat!
Imitation is the best form of flattery as the saying goes, but not when others copy your photo and your Background on Twitter. This is actually the 2rd time this has happened or maybe even more.
I checked out what kind of Twitter-er they were and most are the ones that sell a lot of stuff to peo ...
How To | Make your Blog Search Engine Friendly
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a truly hard and sometimes complicated endeavour to achieve good results in. There is a lot more to it than just adding a few meta tags in your index page to get a high ranking on for example Google search engine. It gets even trickier when you have your own blog ...